2 day international residential conference “Tides and currents in police theories”
12-13 December 2012, conference centrer “De Ceder”, Deinze, Belgium
Conference in close collaboration with the Dutch Society, Police and Security Foundation
With financial support from:
Conference language: English and Dutch
Wednesday December 12th 2012
Chair: Prof. dr. Paul Ponsaers, Ghent University (Belgium)
9:30 Welcome coffee
10:00 Welcoming by Prof. dr. Paul Ponsaers, chair
10:15 Introduction: Prof. Jack Greene, Northeastern University (USA)
11:00 Democratic policing
(E) Prof. Peter Manning, Northeastern University (USA)
(E) John Graham, Police Foundation (UK)
12:00 COFFEE BREAK
12:15 Crisis in police leadership
(E) Prof. Adam Edwards and Gordon Hughes, Cardiff University (UK)
(NL) Prof. dr. Willy Bruggeman, Chair of the Belgian Federal Police Counsel (Belgium)
13:15 LUNCH
14:30 Global crime & policing :
(E)Prof. James Sheptycki, University of York (Canada)
15:30 COFFEE BREAK
16:00– 17:30 Choice between two seminars:
Seminar 1 (NL): Buzz words and basics in policing
Introduction: Prof. dr. Bob Hoogenboom, Nyenrode Business University and Free University Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
Moderator: Prof. dr. Sofie De Kimpe, Free University of Brussels (Belgium)
Contributors:
– (academic) Dr. Guus Meershoek, lector Police Academie & University of Twente (The Netherlands)
– (practice) Philippe De Cock, Chief Constable, Local Police of Brakel (Belgium) (to be confirmed)
Seminar 2 (E): Transformation of Policing
Introduction: Prof. Nick Fyfe, University of Dundee, Scottish Institute of Policing Research (Scotland)
Moderator: Alistair Henry, University of Edinburgh (Scotland)
Contributors:
– (academic) Prof. Adam Crawford, University of Leeds (UK)
– (practice) John Hawkins, Superintendent, Lothian and Borders Police
17:30 Drink
18:30 DINNER
20:00 Party for the occasion of the retirement of Prof. Paul Ponsaers from Ghent university
Thursday, December 13th 2012
Chair: Lodewijk Gunther-Moor, Dutch Foundation for Society, Security and Police (The Netherlands)
9:15-9:30: Introduction
9:30-10:45: workshops: part 1
10:45-11:15: COFFEE BREAK
11:15-12:30: workshops: part 2
Workshops
Each participant can choose two of four workshops (to be chosen in advance). After the coffee break at 10:45 the participants can go to the second workshop.
1. The role of the law in policing (E): Dr. Layla Skinns and dr. Matthew Bacon, University of Scheffield (UK)
Violence and Police (E): Christian Mouhanna, Centre de Recherches Sociologiques sur le droit et les institutions pénales (CESDIP), Paris (France)
Chair: Prof. dr. Frank Hutsebaut , Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium)
Contributors:
– Dr. Tom Van Den Broeck (Belgium)
Dr. Janine Janssen, National Expertise Centre Honor related Violce for the Dutch police and Amsterdam Free University
(The Netherlands)
2. Police science in Germany (E): Prof. dr. Joachim Kersten, Deutsche Hochschule der Polizei (Germany)
Evaluation of research methodology (E): Prof. Tim Hope, University of Salford (UK)
Chair: Prof. dr. Kees Van der Vijver Dutch Foundation for Society, Security and Police (The Netherlands)
Contributors:
– Hidde De Blouw, Dutch Police Academy (The Netherlands)
– Prof. Piet Van Reenen, University of Utrecht (The Netherlands)
3. Police and citizen participation (NL): Prof. dr. Marleen Easton, University College Ghent (Belgium)
Core tasks of the police (NL): Prof. dr. Jan Terpstra, Radboud University Nijmegen (The Netherlands)
Chair: Dr. Lotte Smets, Ghent University (Belgium)
Contributors:
– Dr. Dominique Van Ryckeghem, Federal Police (Belgium)
– Frans De Ruiter, Police Haaglanden(The Netherlands)
4. The complex(ity) of policing dirty crime (NL):
Governance of transnational environmental crime: opportunities and challenges (NL): Drs. Lieselot Bisschop, University College Ghent (Belgium)
Policing financial flows: the anti money laundering complex (NL): Dr. Antoinette Verhage, Ghent University (Belgium)
Chair: Prof. dr. Marc Cools, Ghent University & Free University of Brussel (Belgium)
Contributors:
– Johan Denolf, Director Direction of Financial and Economic crime, Federal Police (Belgium)
– Frits Vlek, Police and Science Program (The Netherlands)
12:30 LUNCH
13:45-15:15 PANEL DISCUSSION (NL): “GLOCALISATION”
Moderator: Dr. Elke Devroe, Editor in Chief of the Journals of Police Studies (Belgium)
Panellists:
Dirk Van Nuffel, Chief Constable Local Police of Bruges (Belgium)
Alain Duchatelet, Vice-chair Centre for Police Studies (Belgium)
Prof. dr. Kees Van der Vijver, Dutch Society, Police and Security Foundation (The Netherlands)
Prof. dr. Piet Van Reenen, University of Utrecht (The Netherlands)
Catherine De Bolle, General commissioner of the Belgian Federal Police (Belgium)
Prof. dr. Cyrille Fijnaut, Universiteit of Tilburg (The Netherlands)
